This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.